DANGEROUS DRIVING

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 41, 17 August 1921, Page 6

DANGEROUS DRIVING

Following on a collision,near the Basin Reserve on 3rd June last, between a motor car and a horse and cart, Dudley Byrne was charged in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr. F.-K. Hunt, S.M., with exceeding the speed limit in Adelaide-road, with driving a motor car in a dangerous manner, and with failing to stop, his car after an accident. Senior-Sergeant Cox represented the police, and Mr. 0. C. Mazengarb ap--peared for the defendant. The, evidence of the owner, of the cart, Henry Juriss, was to ,the effect that he pulled up at tho Caledonian Hotel corner in order to allow a tramcar to pass. "While waiting his cart was struck by a car. .When ,;seen next morning defendant admitted, Juriss said, that he had been responsible for the accident. ;In evidence, the defendant denied having bumped into • the complainant's cart, and also denied having admitted the offence. The Magistrate' said ;he would convict the defendant,, and he. fined him £3 for driving in a dangerous manner, £2 for failing to stop, and convicted and discharged him for exceeding the 'speed limit. . ; .' ,

Messrs. Harcourt and Co. report that there was a fair attendance at their rooms yesterday afternoon, when they submitted a 4-roomed dwcllinghouse in Hansonstreet and a 5-roomed whare and threequarters of an acre of land at Silverstream Tho properties not reaching the reserves, wore passed in, and are now in the hands of the auctioneer's-for'private sale. Those properties situated at Khandallah and Kaiwarra, which were also advertised, were withdrawn from sale by tho beneficiaries.